Method and machine for decorating fabrics



Feb. 23 1926. 1,574,063

E. CADG ENE El AL METHOD AND'MACHINE FOR DECORATING FABRICS Filed May 16, 1925 2 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 32 WIEHU- lmllmm INVENTORS ERNEsr CHDGNE GE RGED PONT 5v r g ATTORN EYS Feb. 23,1926. 1,574,063-

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\ E. CADGENE ET AL METHOD AND MACHINE FOR DECORATING FABRICS Filed May 16', 1925 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTORS ERNEST floss/v5 ATTORNEYS Patented Feb. 23, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST oanennn, or ENGLEWOOD cLIFF's, AND GEORGE DUPONT, or ra'rnnson,

, New JERSEY.

METH OD AND MACHINE FOR DECORATING FABRICS.

Application filed May 16, 1925. Serial No. 30,652.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST CAnGiiNE, a citizen ofFrance, residing at Englewood Cliffs, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, and I, GEORGE DUPONT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson. county of Passaic, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods and Machines for Decorating Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the textile art, and has particular reference to a method and machine for decorating fabrics.

An object of the present invention is to implant upon a fabric, by an improved spraying operation, a decorative composition; which will impart a stipple effect to the finished fabric.

Another object is" to so control the spray- .ing means with respect to its speed of operation and its position relative to the fabric to be decorated that designs having various effects may be implanted upon said fabric.

A further object is to produce a design the cffect of which may be varied and repeated throughout the length of the fabric by continuously operating the spraying means and interposing between said means and the fabric a stencil through which the decorative compositionis intermittently sprayed.

A still further object is to provide a spraying means wherein the spraying brush thereof may be driven at a difierent speed from that of the engraved'roller associated therewith and wherein said speed may be varied to remove more or-less of the decorative composition from-said roller and spray the same upon the fabric to thereby produce varied effects thereon.

.The above and other objects will appear more clearly from the following detailed description, when taken in connection with the accompanying; drawings, which illusirate preferred emlifdiments of the inventive idea.

In the drawings Figairgl is a vertical longitudinal section ployed merely for the purpose of drying the through the machine constructed in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevation thereof;

Figure 3 is a top plan view taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure 2;

Figure at is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating another form of the invention;

Figure 5 is a similar view showing still another form of the invention;

Figure 6 is a sectional view of still another form;

Figure 7 is a similar view of an additional embodiment; and

Figures 8, 9 and 10 are views of different engraved rollers which may be employed in connection with the invention.

Referring to the drawings and more particularly to Figures 1, 2 and 3, the numeral 11 indicates the main frame of the machine which may be of any desired construction and which is provided with an auxiliary frame 12 for supporting the spraying apparatus constituting the essential features of the invention. In the form of the invention illustrated, it is proposed to feed the fabric 13 to be decorated past the spraying apparatus by a continuous movement of said fabric and for this purpose the length of fabric is supported upon a drum 14: carried by the frame 11 and fed therefrom around the guide rollers 15 and 16 past the spraying apparatus. From thence the fabric is led upwardly into a drying chamber 17 between the heating coils 18. At the upper end of the chamber 17 the fabric is extended over a drum 19 and from thence downwardly between heating coils 20 and around the guide roller 21 to a receiving drum 22. The upper end of the drying chamber 17 is provided with an airoutlet 23 in which a suction fan 24 is mounted for the purpose of exhausting the air upon the chamber 17. The drying chamber shown and described is of a well known construction and is ema5 decorative composition which has been implanted upon the fabric by the spraying apparatus,

The spraying apparatus, which embodies the essential features of the present invention, is shown as comprising angular sup porting members 25, each of the base portions of which are slidably mounted upon theptop of the auxiliary frame 12 at one end thereof for movement toward and away block 30 adjusted by means of a screw 31 carried by the member 25 and connected to said block. The'bearing blocks 30 rotatably support the ends of an engraved roller 32 which may have different; designs cut therein, as illustrated in Figures 8, 9 and '10.

' The ends of the engraved roller 32 form bearings for a troiigh 33 designed to contain a color composition of any desired nature which is fed to the engraved roller preparatory to being sprayed upon the fabric 13. The ends of the trough 33 engage the ends of-fhe roller 32 and the frontwall of said trough is inclined so that its lower edge will engage the surface of the roller and combine therewith to retain the decorative composition within said'trough, saidlower edge acting to scrape the outer surface of the roller sothat as the latter is rotated in a counterclockwise direction, as-viewed' in Figures land 2, only'so much of the composition will adhere to the roller as will fill the grooves or depressions formed therein. 1

Mounted for rotation in the supporting member 25 below the engraved roller 32 and adapted for'contact therewith is a bru'sh 34.

,This brush is rotated independently of the engraved roller and is designed to remove the composition from the roller and project the same toward the fabric 13 in the form of a spray and said composition, upon being implanted on the fabric, forms thereon a design havinga stipple effect. The-action of the engraved roller and the rotary brush,

which is driven in a clockwim direction, is

such that the dots forming the stipple. design are uneven in size, as distinguished from the uniform efiect produced by an air brush, and impart to the fabric the appearance of having been spattered 'with thecomposition. This stipple effect produced may be varied at will, first by varying the distance between the roller and brush and the fabric; second,

- by an adjustment of the engraved roller 32 to regulate the amount of contact-between the same and the brush; third, by changing the viscosityof the decoratlve composition;

fourth, by varying the stiffness and arrangement 'of the bristles of the brushffifth, by changing thespeed of rotation of the brush relative to that of the-roller; and sixth, by the. particular engraved design on said roller.

As previously stated the roller 32 and brush 34 are independently operated so that, if desired, the speed of rotation of the brush may be varied with relation to that of the engraved roller, it being preferable to (11" e the brush at a much greater speed tha the roller. For this purpose the stub shaft 35 at one end of the roller is extended through the 'frame 12 and provided upon its end with a pulley 36 around which a belt 37 extends. This belt also' engages another pulley 38 mounted upon the shaft 39 which carries a pulley 40 rotated by a drive belt 41 connected to any suitable source of power. In a like manner one end of the brush 31 carries a pulley 42 driven by a belt 43 pass ing over a pulley .44 carried by a shaft 45, which also carries a pulley 46 which may be driven froma separate source of power by means of the drive belt 47 It will thus be seen that-jas the fabric 13 isbeing moved past thespraymg apparatus'and the roller 32 and brush 34 are being driven as described, the decorative by the brush 34 in the form of a spray and projected on to said fabric, after which the fabric willpass through the drying chamber 17 and be wound upon the drum 22.'

Referring now to Figure 4 the same construction of spraying apparatus is shown and in addition thereto there is provided a thin perforated cylindrical stencil 48, the perforations of which form a suitable design. The stencil 48 is mounted for rotation in the trunnion 49 carried by the auxiliary frame 12 and for this purpose is provided with a gear 50 meshing with a spur gear 51 driven from any snitablesource of power by means of a pulley 52and drive belt 53. The stencil 48"encloses the spraying apparatus so that said stencil will be inter .-0sed'bctween said apparatus and the fabric 13. W'ith this arrangement, as the composition is removed from the engraved roller in the form of a spraythe same will'be projected toward the interior surface of the stencil and portions of the composition will pass through the apertures in said stencil and on to the fabric as, the stencil is rotated. The rotation of the stencil will thus present different portions thereof to the spray and thorel'iy produce a varying effectin the decorative design implanted upon the fabric. The remaining portion of the composition hich strikes he in eri r surface of the stcncil will flow downwardly into a trough 54 carried by the auxiliary frame 12, one wall of said trough being extended to provide a doctor blade which engages the stencil.

In addition to the adjustn'lent previously described in connectionvwith the spraying apparatus, the form of the invention shown in Figure 4 includes an adjustment of the fabric 13 toward and away from the stencil. To this end the guide rollers 55 and 56, which are the equivalent-of the rollers 15 and 16, afe supported by slotted brackets 57 detachably secured to the main frame of the machine.

.In the form of the invention shown in Figure 5 instead'of utilizing a rotary stenoil in connection with the spraying apparatus there is shown a perforated stencil plate 58 secured to the frame 12 and. interposed between the spraying apparatus and the fabric. Operating in conjunction with this stencil plate is a vertically rec procating shutter 59 slidably mounted in a guide 60. 'Reciprocation is imparted to the shutter 59 to intermittently close the apertures in the stencil plate 58 and also vary the size thereof by means of an oscillatory arm 61,- one end of which is connected to the lower end of the shutter 59 and the other end engaged by an eccentric 62 operated varying the characteristics of the design being implanted-on the fabric. In this form of the invention the fabric 13 may also be adjusted toward and away from the spray-- ingapparatus, as described in conrection with Figure 4.

In order that compositions of various colors may be successively implanted upon different portions of the fabric as the same is moved past ,the spraying apparatus, a plurality of such apparatus may be employed as diagrammatically illustrated in Figure 6, the apparatus in each instance being constructed in the same manner as previously described.

Instead of mounting the engraved roller above the rotary brush the positions of these elements may be reversed, as shown in Figure17, in which instance the brush 34 may be adjusted relative to the engraved roller 32 and the latter may be partiallyimmersed in a composition contained in a trough 63 and engaged by a doctor blade 64' for removing such composition as might adhere to the outer surface of the r'oller.

What is claimed is: o I

'1. Inthe textile art, the method of implanting a' decorative composition upon a fabric which consists in spraying thev composition toward' said fabric, interposing a stencil in the'path of the spray? and continuously moving said stencil relative to the fabric to present different portions of the stencil to the spray to vary the characteris tics of the design produced on the fabric.

2. In the textile art, the method of implanting adecorative composition upon a fabric, which consists in feeding said fabric past an engraved roller, spray ng said composition from the moving roller toward said fabric and inter-posing between said roller and fabric a stencil tln'oughwvhich portions of said spray will pass.

3. In the textile art, the method of implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric, which consists in feeding said fabric past an engraved roller, removing said composition from said roller, and in the direction of the moving fabric in the form of a spray, and interposing between said roller and fabric a stencil through which portions of said spray will pass.

4. In the textile art, the method of implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric which consists in moving said fabric past a roller to which the composition is fed,

removing said composition from said roller in the form of a spray, interposing between said roller and fabric a stencil through whch portions of said spray will pass, and presenting different portions of thestencil to said spray to vary the effect produced by said stencil during the spraying operation.

5. In the textile art, the method of implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric'which consists in moving said fabric past a roller to which the composition is fed, removing said composition from said roller in the form of a spray, interposin between said roller and fabric a stenci through which portions of said spray will pass, and continuously moving said stencil relative to said fabric and roller to present: different portions thereof to the spray to vary the characteristics of the design implanted on the fabric.

6. In a textile machine, the combination of a roller to which a composition is fed, means for removing the'composition from said roller and projecting the same in the form of a spray on to a fabric to produce a stipple efi'ect thereon, and'mans for regulating the distance between said fabric and the first named means to vary the character of said Astipple effect. i 7 Y 7. In'a textile machine', =the,-'combination of a roller to which a composition is fed, means for removing the composition from said roller and projecting the same" in the form of a spray on to a fabric to produce a stipple effect thereon, means to rotate said roller and removing means inopposite directions and means for effecting a relative adjustment between said roller and the first named means to-vary the density of said spray.

8. In a textile machine, the combination of a roller to which a composition is fed,

means for removing the composition from said roller and'pro ecting the same in the form of a spray on to a fabric to produce a stipple effect thereon, means for effecting a relative adjustment between said roller and the first named means to vary the density of said spray, and means for regulating the distance between said first named means and fabric to alter'the character of said stipple effect.

9. In a textile machine,-the combination of an engraved roller to which a compost tion is fed, meansto permit said composition to remain only in the engravedportions of said roll'er, and means for removing said composition from said engraved portions and projecting the same on to a fabric in the form of a spray.

10. In a textile machine, the combination of an engraved roller to which a composition is fed, means to permit said composition to remain only in the engraved portions of said roller, and a rotary. brush in contact with said roller and operable to remove said composition fromsaid engraved portions and project the same on to a fabric in the form of a spray. Y;

"11. In a textile machine for implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric, the combination of a roller to which the composition is fed, means for removing the composition from saidroller and projecting the same inthe form of a sprayon to the fabric to produce a stipple effect thereon, a stencil interposed between said spraying means and said fabric, and-means for presenting dlfferent portions of the stencil to said s ray to vary the decorative efiect produce by said stencil during the operation of the firstnamed means.

12. In a textile machine for'implanting a decorative composition upon a. fabric,-the combination of a'roller to which the composition is fed, a rotary brush in contact with said roller and operable to remove the composition therefrom-and project the same onto said fabric in the form of a spray, a stencil interposed between said brush and fabric and through which said cofnposition is sprayed, and means for'successively present-ing different portions of said stencil to said spray to vary the decorative efi'ect upon the fabric during the operation of said brush.

t 13. In a textile machine, the combination of a roller to which a composition is fed,

aneans for removing the composition from said roller and projecting the same in the form of a spra on to a fabric to produce a stippleeffect thereon, and means for independently operating said roller-.,.and' spraying means to permit of the same being driven at different r lati speeds.

14. I11 a textile machine, the combination of a roller to which a composition is fed, a rotary brush'in contact with said roller and operable to remove the composition therefrom and project the same on to said fabric, and means for operating said roller,

brush and stencil independently of one another to permit of the same being driven at different relative speeds.

16. In a textile machine, the combination of means for continuously moving a fabric,

a-supporting member adjustable toward and away from said fabric, a rotary engraved roller carried by said supporting member, a trough carried by said roller for containing a composition, said rollerforming one of the walls of said trough, a rotary brush also carried by said supporting member and in contactwith said engraved roller and operable to remove the composition from the roller and project the same. toward said fabric in the form ofa spray, means for rotating said engraved roller in one direction, and" independent means for rotating said brush in an.opposite direction.

17. In a textile machine for implanting adecorative composition upon a fabric, the combination of means for projecting the composition toward the fabric in the form of a spray, a stencil interposed between said fabric and means, and means for presenting difierent portions of the stencil to the spray to vary the decorative efi'ect produced upon the fabric during the operation of saidprojecting means.

18. In a textile machine for implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric, the

combination of means for projecting the .composition toward the fabric in the form of aispray, a stencil interposed between said fabric and means and means for rotating said stencil tosi'iccessively'present different portions thereof to the spray to vary the decorative effect produced on said fabric.

19. In a textile machine for implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric, the

combination of means for projecting the composition toward the, fabric in the form of a spray, a stencil interposed between said fabric and means, means for moving said fabric past said stencilin spaced relation thereto, and means for presenting. difierent portions of said stencil to'said spray as said fabricis e ng-m ved to v ry he haracteristics of the design implanted upon the fabric.

20. In a textile machine for implanting a decorative composition upon a fabric, thecombination of means for projecting the composition toward the fabric in the form of a spray to produce'a stippie efiect upon said fabric, and means for regulating the distance between said fabric and the first named means to vary the character of said 1 stipple efiect.

In testimony whereof we have afliried our signatures. v

ERNEST CADGEN E. GEORGE DUPONT. 

